So it is unsurprising that much of the media - and many of you in the comments you leave here and on Twitter - say that it would be little short of a scandal if the bank's senior executives were to receive big pay awards when bonuses and longer-term performance rewards are decided early next month.
And that is one of the many attributes that he brings to the job of running, as you say, an institution as large as the Defense Department.
Raging since first thing Sunday morning, I dare say many of you will have already taken sides in the great Cate Debate.
Incidentally, you can say the same of Indonesia, which many think should now be an informal BRIC.
If you look at your organization and how it reacted to the financial crisis, how many of the decisions made would you say really showed foresight and future planning?
But you also have to say that the Egyptian security in many parts of the Sinai is just not that good.
One thing you can certainly say for it, Puss in Boots learned from the many mistakes of the Shrek franchise.
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And then on the same thing, can you say how many total miles of coastline have been soiled by oil so far?
Now, I say all this not to re-litigate the past, but it's simply to state that the component parts of the Recovery Act are consistent with what many of you say are important things to do -- rebuilding our infrastructure, tax cuts for families and businesses, and making sure that we were providing states and individuals some support when the roof was caving in.
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Yet their support here at home has never wavered, and I would say that they, too, the families that Shirley represents and many of you in the audience, they are as brave and heroic as their sons and daughters and their husbands and wives that are there, and they truly deserve our support.
And so I'm thinking to myself, well, how is it that a plan that is pretty centrist -- no, look, I mean, I'm just saying, I know you guys disagree, but if you look at the facts of this bill, most independent observers would say this is actually what many Republicans -- is similar to what many Republicans proposed to Bill Clinton when he was doing his debate on health care.
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This sort of thing goes on the world over, you may say, but one Portuguese economist who spent many years in an international economic organisation thinks that his country's government is now playing cheekier tricks than most.
The news release also does not say how many different subsets of patients were analyzed, which is particularly important because the more subsets you analyze, the more you are likely to have a positive result merely by chance.
If you want further evidence, these critics would say, look at the balance sheets of Britain's biggest companies, many of whom are sitting on a mountain of idle cash.
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